The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given pesticides manufacturers a deadline of May 13th to agree to new restrictions on applying three farm pesticides that pose a threat to Pacific salmon and steelhead. If the companies don't comply by May 13th, the EPA will take legal action.
The EPA action comes 18 months after NOAA Fisheries Service found that the pesticides threaten the survival of 27 species of salmon and steelhead in the West. Anti-pesticide groups had initially sued EPA over the issue in 2001. The chemicals have been found by federal biologists to interfere with a salmon and steelhead's sense of smell, making it harder for them to find food, avoid predators and return to native waters to spawn.
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